Holocaust in American Life

Name: Holocaust in American Life
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ISBN: 9780618082322

ISBN-10: 0618082328

ISBN-13: 9780618082322

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter Novick

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Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



The War Years



"We Knew in a General Way"



"If Our Brothers Had Shown More Compassion"



"The Abandonment of the Jews"



The Postwar Years



"The DP Camps Have Served Their Historic Purpose"



"That Is Past, and We Must Deal with the Facts Today"



"Not in the Best Interests of Jewry"



The Years of Transition



"Self-Hating Jewess Writes Pro-Eichmann Series"



"A Bill Submitted 'for Sufferings Rendered'"



"Would They Hide My Children?"



Recent Years



"To Bigotry No Sanction"



"Never Again the Slaughter of the Albigensians"



Future Years



"We Are Not Equipped to Answer"


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index